School-based management developments and partnership: Evidence from Indonesia

School-based management (SBM) with devolution of authority and responsibility to school level decision-makers has become the most prominent feature of public school management systems in most countries around the world. This article provides the global trends and current developments in SBM in Indonesia with an emphasis on how SBM has created partnership and participatory decision-making processes in school level. The data reported here are on the basis of an empirical survey involving 504 school council members from Ngada Flores followed by 42 interviews with all relevant stakeholders.     

Report on multicultural education in pesantren

This article aims to report a single case study of how an Islamic boarding school (pesantren) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, prepared students for a multicultural Indonesia. Despite negative portrayal by the Western media about increasing Islamic radicalism in some pesantren, many pesantren are in fact transforming into modern Islamic institutions, incorporating the teaching of democratic values and practices, endorsing civil society and community development, and inculcating cultural/religious diversity and tolerance in students. Using schoolyard and classroom ethnographies, along with in-depth interviews and focus group discussions (FGD) with teachers and students, the study found that classroom and non-classroom practices of the pesantren promote the development of multicultural education. Several subjects within both curriculum developed by the government and curriculum developed by pesantrens discuss a considerable number of issues that relate to cultural and religious diversity, tolerance, citizenship and democracy. The non-classroom practices of pesantren offer invaluable and intensive experiences for students to socialise with peers from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. However, challenges remain for the kyai (the pesantren’s great leader) and other leaders, such as teachers’ lack of competency, unclear multicultural objectives in both the pesantren’s curricula and the pesantren’s traditions, and unequal relations among students and among teachers. These challenges must be overcome to further develop education for cultural diversity.     

二战后印尼华文教育发展的潜在动力——论华人文化认同对印尼华文教育的促进

印度尼西亚是东南亚华人最主要的聚居区之一,其华人教育有着较早的历史和良好的发展基础.但长期以来,由于遭受各种因素的影响,华文教育在印度尼西亚的发展历经曲折和坎坷.印度尼西亚历届政府的教育政策、中国国际地位的高低以及华人的文化认同都影响着印度尼西亚华文教育的发展,但从根本上说,华人对中华文化的认同才是华文教育产生和发展的根本原因,是支撑华文教育发展的重要支柱.     

Education and social change in post-conflict and post-disaster Aceh,Indonesia

The paper analyses the context in which education in Aceh acts strategically to advance an agenda of social transformation. Applying a cultural, political economy analytical framework, it identifies ways in which education is embedded in key cultural, political, economic and social struggles at present. They include: (1) the redistribution of educational opportunities and access; (2) ambiguous spaces for democratic representation in a decentralised educational structure; (3) competing notions of how diversity is acknowledged within Indonesia and Aceh Province; and (4) conflicted approaches to reconstruction following the 2004 tsunami and end of conflict in 2005.     

印度尼西亚全面同化政策下的华人宗教文化

本文概述了印尼的华人同化政策具有全方位、强制性的特征;分析了在这种强制性的全面同化政策以及其他因素的综合作用下印尼华人宗教文化所形成的别具一格的特点;并从外在和内在角度特别是根据印尼新政府最近在华人政策方面作出的一些调整,对印尼华人宗教文化的未来发展趋势与前景进行初步的探测.     

简评《千岛情缘》

《千岛情缘》是第一部由融籍作家完成的描写福清华侨侨居生活的作品。小说在其积极的政治意义之外传递了两个国家的历史文化信息，展示了三个民族的语言文化、三种文明的理念信仰、以及三种宗教的矛盾冲突，生动再现了印尼华人融入异国环境的历史过程和心路历程，其国际性十分值得探讨。     

Estimate of the private return on education in Indonesia: Evidence from sibling data

This study reexamines the return on education (ROE) in Indonesia to solve the puzzle between the high ROE from previous studies and the low enrollment rate for higher education by taking into account endogeneity and sample selectivity issues. This study finds the OLS estimates of ROE in between 10% and 12%. After controlling for unobserved family background using sibling data, the Household Fixed Effect estimate indicates ROE reduces from 10.8% to 5%. This study argues ROE is not as high as previously estimated and may explain why the enrollment rate for college has been stagnating in Indonesia.     

印尼华文教师现状调查研究

本文以问卷调查为主,结合其他材料,分析了当前印尼华文教师的情况和近几年出现的变化：年轻华文教师越来越多,但职业忠诚度不如其他年龄段教师;性别失衡及年龄断层情况仍旧严重;华文教师整体学历水平、收入水平均逐步提高;使用简体字、汉语拼音进行教学占绝对比例。论文还就出现的相关问题进行了分析探讨。     

Photography and Chineseness: reflections on Chinese Muslims in Indonesia

This paper takes my previous photobook, Chinese Muslims in Indonesia (2007–09) as starting point. The paper firstly details the motivations, methodology and findings of the work. It then advances some of my thoughts on photography, with its attentive focus on the particular. Photography, or documenting (as method), frames a performative and experiential space for the sitter and the photographer to project their desires in this collaborative encounter. Here, I discuss the performative in relation both to the issue of reactivity in sociological fieldwork and the cultural turn in dakwah amongst some Chinese Muslim leaders in the post-Suharto era. The subjectivity of each encounter helps to visualise and complicate the notion of Chineseness amongst the Chinese Muslim communities in Indonesia.